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Chamberlain Announces Recipients of ’09 Scholarships AwardsProfessional Door Dealer - Sep 1, 2009 Each year, The Chamberlain Group is proud to honor students who excel both inside the classroom and their community with the Duchossois/Chamberlain College Scholarship Awards. This year's scholarship award recipients are Lela Epstein, Thomas Cleary, Peter Lawinger, Samantha Shepley and Krista Shutvet...

Grange Fencing buys MetpostBuilders Merchants Journal - Sep 2, 2009 Grange Fencing has bought the goodwill and assets of Metpost, from Expamet Building Products Ltd for an undisclosed sum. Metpost has made fence post supports and accessories since 1974 and is the market leader...

Fence Contractors in the News

Don’t fence him inWestfair Business Publications - Sep 3, 2009 Cary Socci began his career in the fence installation industry at the most legendary concert in the country’s history. It was 1969, and the then 20-year-old and a friend were commissioned by Bronx-based Gun Hill Fence Co. to fashion three miles of chain-link fence around the perimeter of Woodstock...

Local Government Issues

The fence that Burke builtChicago Sun-Times - Sep 8, 2009 Powerful alderman spent $45,499 in taxpayer money to build a sidewalk and fence longer than a football field that keeps teens from hanging around the railroad track behind his home ...

City Hall mending laissez faire fence lawLa Crosse Tribune - Sep 4, 2009 Until recently, John Kockler needed only to look next door to see the consequences of unregulated fences. His neighbor on North 22nd Street in La Crosse took down 2 feet of lattice atop the 5-foot fence between their properties ...

Code Changes Target Driveways, FencesWebster Kirkwood Times - Sep 4, 2009 The major change in fence regulations concerns screening between commercial properties and requiring hardware on residential fencing to be put on the inside ...

Swampscott officials OK new fenceDaily Item - Sep 4, 2009 SWAMPSCOTT - Since recently installed signs and increased police enforcement have not deterred parents from using the small, dead-end streets surrounding Phillips Park as a loading zone, the town is now considering installing a fence with locked gates ...

Schools and Fences

School's 'prison' fence green lightThe Star - Sep 3, 2009 A SHEFFIELD school has been given the green light to erect a massive fence around its grounds – despite residents' objections that it would ...

Fence Collapses, Students Injured At HS Football GameThePittsburghChannel.com - Sep 5, 2009 WEST VIEW, Pa. -- Several students were hurt when a bleacher fence collapsed before Friday night's football game at North Hills Stadium. About 50 students rushed to the fence at the bottom of the bleacher section at North Hills Senior High School, ...

Community Issues

Allotment fence 'might injure vandals'Mirror.co.uk - Sep 4, 2009 Gardeners are so furious with their council they feel like throwing in their trowels. The growers have been banned from using barbed wire to deter allotment vandals - in case they hurt themselves...

Fence project gets the go-ahead for constructionNewberg Graphic - Sep 4, 2009 A project of the Newberg Downtown Revitalization Committee is one large step closer to fruition with a commitment from George Fox University to assist with the replacement of fencing along a short stretch of Portland Road...

Audigier Fighting $1 Million Fencing MatchTMZ.com - Sep 4, 2009 Ed Hardy honcho Christian Audigier likes his big fence and wants to keep it around his big house -- his only problem ... the city of Los Angeles in standing in his way ...

Fences and Animals - Domestic

Farmer says better fences might cost too muchGainesville Times - Sep 8, 2009 The Hall County Board of Commissioners is looking over the county’s official code of ordinances after local farmers expressed concerns over new fencing regulations...

Fences for Fido brings room to runRTT News - Sep 7, 2009 OREGON CITY, Ore. - Whether it's a dog bite or the death of a dog that's chained up in severe heat, a local group of volunteers said it happens too often. To prevent such tragedies, they're arming themselves with wire cutters and hammers...

Fences and Animals - Wildlife

CDOT to build more wildlife fencing along Highway 82Aspen Times - Sep 4, 2009 GARFIELD COUNTY — The Colorado Department of Transportation will soon begin installing wildlife fencing along a stretch of Highway 82 south of Glenwood Springs that sees a high incidence of wildlife-vehicle collisions. ...

International

Fencing off Bangladeshguardian.co.uk - Sep 5, 2009 In the last six months, more than 50 people have been killed alongside the 2,500-mile barbed wire fence that India is building around its neighbour, Bangladesh. Such incidents are increasing in what is becoming one of the most volatile border areas in the world...

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